Wat
Chùa Muni Răngsây
វត្តមុនីរង្សី
Chùa Muni Răngsây (វត្តមុនីរង្សី, Chùa Munirensây)[1] is a Khmer Theravada Buddhist Wat on Hòa Bình avenue in Ninh Kiều ward, Cần Thơ, Vietnam, founded in 1948.[2][3]
History
Monks and lay Buddhists of Cần Thơ and the Mekong Delta built the Wat together in 1948.[2] It stood on the city's main avenue, then named for Colonel Dessert and now Hòa Bình avenue, and was known as the "front Wat"; Chùa Pitu Khôsa Răngsây, founded the same year on Mạc Đĩnh Chi street, was the "back Wat".[3]
The Wat had four abbots by 2011, the latest Hòa thượng (Most Venerable) Dhamma Suvannatthera Thạch Chương, who rebuilt the main hall. That hall later fell into disrepair. Work on a new main hall began in May 2010 and finished on March 26, 2011, at a cost of 3.3 billion đồng. Hòa thượng Đào Như, head of the Buddhist Sangha's board for Cần Thơ, led the building committee. The new hall was dedicated, and its sima (consecrated boundary) marked, on March 30, 2011. As of 2011, the Wat was the seat of the patriotic monks' association of Cần Thơ.[2]
Religious life
On October 2, 2026, the city's Communist Party secretary visited the monks, the management board and the students of the Wat for Sen Dolta, the festival for ancestors, and met Hòa thượng Trần Sone, deputy head of the patriotic monks' association. As of 2026, monks and students from other provinces lived at the Wat while they attended universities and colleges in Cần Thơ.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ Báo Cần Thơ (Khmer edition), ទិដ្ឋភាពពុទ្ធបរិស័ទអញ្ជើញចូលរួមពិធីកាន់បិណ្ឌទី១ នៅវត្តមុនីរង្សី (September 27, 2026)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Giác Ngộ, Cần Thơ: Trọng thể khánh thành và kiết giới Sima chùa Munirensây (March 30, 2011)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Báo Cần Thơ, Chùa Pitu Khôsa Răngsây: Đồng hành cùng đất nước (March 13, 2010)
- ↑ Báo Cần Thơ, Bí thư Thành ủy Cần Thơ chúc mừng đồng bào dân tộc Khmer nhân dịp lễ Sene Dolta (October 2, 2026)